Post Urban Ventures
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AI and Deep Tech venture builder that is building the next generation of highly disruptive companies. Founded in 2016, it has hand built a portfolio of deep tech startups worth over £60m in four years.
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What is Post Urban Ventures?
Post Urban Ventures (PUV) is an AI and Deep Tech venture builder that is building the next generation of highly disruptive companies. Founded in 2017, it has hand built a portfolio of deep-tech startups worth over $72m in 5 years.
PUV is powered by a team of serial deep-tech entrepreneurs and their networks of UK and European founders, academics and investors.
Who should apply?
✔️ Academics
✔️ Professors
✔️ Students
✔️ Anyone with a desire to develop a piece of research into a viable tech product or business
✔️ Based in South Yorkshire
What will you get?
team building & interim CEO and CTOs
commercial support & IP creation
help to secure external funding
global trend identification
validation of academic research
Post Urban Ventures and TEAM SY have launched a new Venture Builder in South Yorkshire. Together, we are developing connections to build strong, scalable deep- tech companies in the region to support the local tech ecosystem. What’s more, as the programme is fully funded by the ERDF, Capital Enterprise and Barnsley Council, your involvement is at no cost to you.
What do we do?
Deep tech startup founders are typically professors and students who often have limited experience of turning research into scalable products and businesses. This lack of experience may result in ill-informed, out of sync tech and product development that wastes time, money and depresses portfolio returns in deep tech venture capital.
PUV identifies global macro-tech and business trends to form a vision of the future. This allows us to get ahead of how the world is thinking and changing, whilst our systematic venture building model lowers the risks associated with turning world-leading academic research into scalable and saleable products.
PUV hand-builds startups, explores and validates academic research, creates IP, develops a world class team and works with them to define a scalable tech and product roadmap.
We also take interim CEO and CTO roles when needed at the early stage. What’s more, we work closely with teams to secure external funding, build tech, win commercial proof of concepts and set and track objectives to scale startups.
Other Collaborations
Having successfully built and funded five new companies in the past four years, Post Urban Ventures is also one of the main partners in delivering the ‘Get Funding Fit’ Programme for startups in South Yorkshire.
Post Urban Ventures has a track record of providing commercial support to entrepreneurship programmes, with a particularly notable collaboration with University College London (UCL) to help foster spin-outs from the Computer Science Department.
The PUV Venture Builder runs from July 2021 until June 2023.
Who you’ll be working with
Dr Luke Robinson
Senior Technical Lead - AI & Quantum
Nick Slater
Senior Investment Manager
Lotus Qi
Community and Outreach Manager
Ready to build your venture?
Join this programme and become part of the TEAM SY community. Take your startup to the next level with our support.